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  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,734 Championing
    edited March 4
    Sandy_123 said:
    Not for me then I only want things that reappear 
    phlox paniculata are hardy very easy to grow depending where you live once flowered you can cut back to the ground bit of bone meal and may flower again a 2nd time  after a year can just chop it in half to make 2 plants hardy penstemon are another both plants are loved by butterflies 
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 954 Championing
    edited March 4
    I had 6 Penstemons I grew from cuttings, we only had one week of hard frosts down to minus 7and it's wiped them out. Everyone I know locally lost theirs too, including a local nursery that lost over a hundred 

    Very strange, when a cordyline survived unwrapped.  The trials and tribulation of being a gardener.  Nothing is guaranteed

    I've only ever grown alpine phlox but do like the look/idea of a paniculata < have to find a space smiley >
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,734 Championing
    edited March 4
    WelshBlue said:
    I had 6 Penstemons I grew from cuttings, we only had one week of hard frosts down to minus 7and it's wiped them out. Everyone I know locally lost theirs too, including a local nursery that lost over a hundred 

    Very strange, when a cordyline survived unwrapped.  The trials and tribulation of being a gardener.  Nothing is guaranteed

    I've only ever grown alpine phlox but do like the look/idea of a paniculata < have to find a space smiley >
    can always find a space we have a lovely dark plum penstemon in the garden they get used to a bit of hard weather as they get older and established i put plants in where i think they should go they dont do so well dawnie takes em out and nurses them back in pots then i have to find somewhere else to put them but its all good fun 
  • birdwatcher
    birdwatcher Online Community Member Posts: 149 Empowering
    edited March 4
    I wish I could still get in my garden! Used to love spending a nice afternoon pottering. And spent hours in the greenhouse
    At least I've still got my houseplants. 😁
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,734 Championing
    edited March 4
    birdwatcher said:
    I wish I could still get in my garden! Used to love spending a nice afternoon pottering. And spent hours in the greenhouse
    At least I've still got my houseplants. 😁
    cant beat being outside last summer we had a couple of wild pigeons come visit every day for a drink and splash around in the bird bath i did manage to sit beside it and hand feed one of them memories you cant erase how something so simple can give so much pleasure 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    edited March 4
    Ok all you green fingers people. What's best weed killer to buy and I've tryed homely rememedies and it doesn't work
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,734 Championing
    edited March 4
    Sandy_123 said:
    Ok all you green fingers people. What's best weed killer to buy and I've tryed homely rememedies and it doesn't work
    hard work and perseverance never used weed killer a weed is only a weed if you dont want it in your garden just make sure you get all the roots out they have a nasty habit of coming back two fold 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    edited March 4
    Yeah @michael57 im looking at long handled weed pullers now 
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,734 Championing
    edited March 4
    Sandy_123 said:
    Yeah @michael57 im looking at long handled weed pullers now 
    ah my dawnie has one of them called michael haha 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    edited March 4
    I'm going to try a weed puller @ada on a long stick I've tryed the washing up liquid and vinegar route I don't think it works. Lol @michael57 I was just about which ones she has
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,734 Championing
    edited March 4
    Sandy_123 said:
    I'm going to try a weed puller @ada on a long stick I've tryed the washing up liquid and vinegar route I don't think it works. Lol @michael57 I was just about which ones she has
    if i lived to 120 i would still owe the boss brownie points bless her so i tend the garden and live in hope
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4
    We have a major infestation of tormentil (Potentilla erecta) in our area, it's the bane of my gardening existence as it grows everywhere and if you don't get every tiny bit of their super long tap root out, they just regrow. If anyone has any tips for getting rid of it quickly, I'm all ears!
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,734 Championing
    edited March 4
    Albus_Scope said:
    We have a major infestation of tormentil (Potentilla erecta) in our area, it's the bane of my gardening existence as it grows everywhere and if you don't get every tiny bit of their super long tap root out, they just regrow. If anyone has any tips for getting rid of it quickly, I'm all ears!
    you could try covering with a layer of cardboard then a thick layer of bark but you hit the nail on the head about getting the tap root out good luck 
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4
    Unfortunately I'd need to take out shares in a cardboard factory to cover everything haha. The weed is even growing through the plastic base layer under the stone paths. It's certainly tough stuff! 
  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,734 Championing
    edited March 4
    Albus_Scope said:
    Unfortunately I'd need to take out shares in a cardboard factory to cover everything haha. The weed is even growing through the plastic base layer under the stone paths. It's certainly tough stuff! 
    haha you will have to take the old farmer method then brute force sweat and ignorance i remember doing our garden it had bamboo growing i dug down 4ft to get all the roots out touch wood we have never had it come back at all in 5 years i couldnt do it now tho 
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    edited March 4
    Oh I know the pain of bamboo haha. The old owners put it directly into the flower beds, we're still finding random patches of it.  :D 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,129 Championing
    edited March 4
    Oh bamboo is a night mare 
  • Teigr
    Teigr Online Community Member Posts: 5,078 Championing
    edited March 4
    I've started planting up the pots in the front garden but the weather's too bad to carry on with it today.
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 954 Championing
    edited March 4
    @Albus_Scope ... I've known people control cinquefoil by feeding the ground with nutrients.  It thrives on dry sandy barren soil

    @Sandy_123 ... I don't know if you've sorted weed killer but I swear by Resolva for close up work or for big patches I use a flame gun.  Scorched earth policy

    The weather has been great this week, although it's blinking cold, heating on at the end of April is bonkers.
    Boom and bust gardening wise.  My body is crying out to take a rest.  Fibro' is winning the past couple of days

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